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Hope
[[Image:|225px]] Image of Hope 2006
Born	25 January 1962(1962-01-25) Wolverhampton ,England
Residence	Hollywood, California and New York, USA
Occupation	Company Chairman and Social Transformer
Website www.ambassadorhope.com

Karen Wallace (born 25 January 1962), known as Hope, is the Chairman and President of Prosperity Studios inc. an international Intellectual Property Management Company.

Hope was born in Wolverhampton in a children’s home and raised by adoptive parents in West Bromwich,England. Hope attended All Saints Junior School and Churchfields Comprehensive School. Since 2004 she has been known by her stage name Hope, by her global family and stakeholders.

Hope has succeeded in converging the interests of Capital Hill, Wall Street, Silicon Valley and Hollywood to develop and implement Social Transformation Programs across 61 countries. Hope invented the International Class Action Contract which empowers groups of citizens with unmet social needs to appoint Prosperity Studios Inc to represent them, develop a technology-led solution and mobilize the stakeholders to cooperate and collaborate to serve their needs.

During her early years, Hope, worked in global tourism marketing and promotional partnerships. In 1986, Hope started the research and development that would take her to 21 countries to study health care protocols and systems. The same year she received her calling on Masada at the Dead Sea, Israel to serve the poor and the sick. 21 years later, Hope has built a technology platform, 17 Therapy Programs, a global supply chain and attracted humanitarian funding to serve ‘the scale and speed of the need’ TM.

Hope has taken part in several other endeavors outside of Prosperity Studios inc and has collaborated and recorded a rap song with JFK and is making a compilation CD due out in 2008 called ‘Songs of Hope’ which will raise awareness of the Virtual Parents Program. She has also participated in different business ventures, some of which were ahead of their time and failed.

Hope was appointed Ambassador to represent 13 million orphans by a Ugandan group and 25 million sick by a group representing the HIV/AIDS sufferers out of Kenya. Hope is also widely known for her diplomatic activism concerning Africa, for which she has given over 600 briefings on Capital Hill and challenged the dysfunctional US Foundation Sector which is hoarding $2.2 trillion of cash and assets.

She has met with several, influential politicians and celebrities throughout her lifetime. Among numerous awards and nominations, Hope has been interviewed for the Nobel Peace Prize for raising the largest amount of private sector funds for health care and orphan care in Africa, was made a Lady in the United Kingdomin 2000, and was named as Technology Change Agent of the Year in 2004 by Wharton Business School and Infosys.

In 2007, 75% of the world’s population, (4.5 billion global citizens), have no access to health care and more than 120 million children are orphans. Hope intends to take Prosperity Studios Inc. public on the NYSE in 2008 and convert her customer capital into financial capital so that more needs can be served.

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[edit] Background

Larry King said “he envied her faith”. Whoever meets Hope is at once captivated and stunned by her unbending vision and tenacity to bring about Social Transformation in the most deprived countries of the world. Where others see only hopelessness and lack of facilities, Hope sees opportunity, talent and resourcefulness. “The way she can see connections between people of different cultures on different continents and get them all mobilized to serve a need is truly astounding” said Ian McLean, one of the Humanitarian Financiers.

Hope was born to an unmarried 16 year old girl, Christine Wallace on January 25th 1962. As customary in those days, the baby was given up for adoption and transferred to a Children’s home in Wolverhampton. Within 6 weeks she was adopted by Shirley and Richard Edwards and grew up in West Bromwich.

Shirley and Richard Edwards were soul mates and although they struggled with the social and economic impact of diabetes,epilepsy and heart attacks their love for each other and encouragement of Hope “to do anything she set her mind to” influenced her attitude towards love, learning and thinking big. Her two sets of Godparents Irene and Denis Dodd and Jean and Tom Care were also soul mates and had a tremendous influence on the young girl.

Hope went to a Church of England school and a Methodist Sunday School. At an early age she started attending inter-faith services with school friends and enjoyed experiencing other religions and faiths.

Hope attended All Saints Junior School, winning a painting competition at just 4 years old. Hope studied ballet, tap, singing and drama at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) from age 5 to 19. She attended Churchfields Comprehensive School and graduated at 16 with 7 ‘O’ levels.

In 1978, Hope won a Commercial Apprentice at GEC (a UK subsidiary of GE) where she learned how to run an engineering company and studied IT,

Economics, Accounting and Marketing at the West Midlands College of Science and Technology. In 1979 she worked for the Store Development team of Tesco, the largest UK supermarket group before starting her first business in 1980, the same year that Margaret Thatcher became the first woman Prime Minister of the UK. Betty Boothroyd, the first woman speaker of the House of Commons was her local Member of Parliament in West Bromwich.

In January 1986, she would experience a profound spiritual awakening on the top of Masada overlooking the Dead Sea in Israel. She knew she was being called to serve the sick in a new way combining technology, education and natural treatments,she had no idea where this path would follow or how her faith would be tested.

In 1987, she endured 3 tragic family losses in 3 months. Hope’s Godfather died unexpectedly followed by the death of her father with his 4th heart attack and then her Godmother committed suicide distraught from her husbands’ death. With her mother suicidal for 2 years and a business and home to care for affected Hope’s health and in 1992 after many mis-diagnoses and treatments she would be taken to hospital and underwent a 7.5 hour operation to remove a disintegrating gall bladder and 8 gall stones. This was a time of rededication to ensure that citizens had access to the knowledge and self-treatments to manage their conditions and keep themselves healthy.

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Hope’s adopted mother was a house wife and her father a quality engineer who worked with metal processes for the guns, automotive and typewriter industries. West Bromwich was first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. West Bromwich is part of the Black Country where the industrial revolution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution started just 28 miles away in 1781. At one time West Bromwich was dubbed the “Chicago of the Midlands”.

As a young child they lived in Vicarage Road in a pre-war row house and she often heard her father having epileptic fits in the middle of the night. His health often meant days off work and subsequently he had to change jobs often. Hope’s childhood was happy and she loved learning. When she was ten, the family moved to Temple Meadows Road to a modern house within walking distance of her school and near lots more children.

Hope had been told she was a chosen child and always experienced the positive side of adoption. It was not until she was briefed on the HIV/AIDS and orphans Program some 39 years later that she realized she was an orphan!

At 18 she left home and started her first business advising other small businesses how to market their products or companies. The Birmingham Chamber of Commerce was instrumental in introducing Hope to many clients as she would give a talk on marketing to 60 small businesses at once. Hope credits the London School of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) for building her confidence and presentation skills.

As a Pioneer, Hope has experienced great successes and failures. Her ability to constantly test theories and processes are what has made her a creative inventor, always looking to solve problems and overcome challenges in a practical and efficient way.

In 1988 she won the British Sales and Marketing Award at just 25, it was a bittersweet moment as her father had passed just 4 months before the ceremony in London.